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Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 15:17:03 -0700
From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>
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On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 10:45:39PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> 
>    I cannot prevent you from committing this, but if it doesn't address
>    the items mentioned above, it may not be used on FreeBSD.  Unless I'm
>    being relieved of gdb duties of course :-)
> 
> Let's see.  My kvm stuff would still serve a purpose for older
> releases.

[still about FreeBSD] Yes, to certain extend. There's already a port
for gdb6 in the ports collection and I presume it also works on
FreeBSD 4.x. Nonetheless, I like having gdb work without local hacks,
so from that perspective it's definitely valuable.

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net